Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.

I got a very strong sense from my mother, in particular, that we are all equal in the sight of God.

Separation and devolution are two completely different concepts which cannot be mixed together. One is not a stop on the way to the other.

The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists.

It's true across the U.K. that those who had least to do with causing the economic crisis are carrying the heaviest burden. That's unacceptable.

The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument - can you make a difference?

I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.